Sentences with phrase «scything through»

To be honest, Nioh reminds me of happy hours hacking away at Orcs and Haradrim in the Return of the King movie tie - in game or scything through Cao Cao's armies in Dynasty Warriors 5.

The R - Design models with their sporty suspension offer plenty of driver involvement, the car scything through bends with an almost flippant level of dexterity.

She mutates into a high - gloss black vamp, proudly scything through the night - time cityscape.

Carving roads in the 2016 Nissan GT - R lets us imagine we're at the helm of a high - tech fighter jet, scything through the air with precision thanks to high - tech electronics.

We'll come to the Tuscan later, but for now I'm entranced by how the Boxster relies on its balance and brakes more than brawn, scything through the corners with wonderful precision, lithe damping and measured steering responses enabling you to carry more speed from turn - in to exit.

After scything through from 16th on the grid, he overtook Kimi Raikkonen on the last lap at Turn 17, a place where you don't normally see overtaking.

He'd been up and down the field all day, but in the closing laps found himself on the right tyres and was able to scythe through the pack to finish sixth for Super Aguri, the teams best ever result.

Hodgson's hamfisted diplomatic solution — «footballing reasons» — looked anaemic even before the injuries that have scythed through England's squad; now, as Liverpool's intermittently promising but profoundly inexperienced Martin Kelly joins the squad, it looks beyond resuscitation.

A safety car period set the stage for some vintage Daniel Ricciardo lunging as he scythed through from sixth to first on fresher tyres

Like Kevin Smith's blistering Red State, this film scythes through the mindless degradation of the American media.Frank (Murray)...

The MTC engineers also took on the not insubstantial task of making the Land Cruiser scythe through the air with a little more grace.

as it scythes through bends, sitting flat and gripping with the kind of vociferousness often seen in politically charged arguments about EV incentives.

Car enthusiasts wishing they could scythe through the snow this Christmas like Stig Blomqvist in an Audi quattro may appreciate having their dreams fuelled by this beautifully detailed 1:43 scale model of the Eighties original in its road - going form.

As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.»

Not exact matches

And lo, Oliver Letwin's scythe swept through the «red tape» of environmental regulations.

Other trails take you to scenic ridges, through forests of twisting koa trees, and up to one of Bogue's favorite spots: the Alakai Swamp, where rare native birds like the scythe - beaked Hawaiian honeycreeper flit around above shallow bogs.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann; Alfred A. Knopf, $ 30 In a poignant reconstruction of paradise lost, Mann marshals compelling evidence that the «New World» was an advanced, thriving, and crowded place before Columbus and his disease - bearing ilk swept through it like a scythe.

Previous domestic efforts to establish the tree in the South, which came to a peak in the early 1980s, failed as winter freezes scythed dead swaths through experimental plantations.

Through either technology or some ability, you can either shoot your enemies (robotic creatures created by a program gone horribly wrong «Night Scythe») or hack away at them in wicked - cool close combat.

Just in the opening moments, with Grey's arrival at his strange inn and the sight of an old ferry rider carrying a scythe, the film begins casting a spell through its imagery alone.

A quirky spin on the adventure puzzle genre, you assume the role of an elderly scythe wielding landscaper whose sole job is to clear a path for our intrepid hero by slicing through 50 grass - filled stages.

While Baker is the lens through which the story is told, Ryder is its scythe - bearing, no - BS conscience, and a late diner scene in particular offers up powerful proof of (no pun intended here) her ability to kill softly.

Director Claude Lelouch takes little over eight and a half minutes to scythe his way through early - morning Parisian streets in his pneumatically - suspended 450SEL.

From the rear especially, the new, laterally extended perspectives are so stunning — all the more so when the retractable boot - lid wing responsible for reducing lift at speed scythes into the airstream at a pre-determined 75mph — that several cyclists, moving through the crawling traffic more swiftly than us, wobble as they approach the Merc's widescreen rump.

As you progress through the game you gain access to a giant scythe, guns, a gauntlet that causes earthquakes and much more.

There's an automata mode included in the box meaning it's possible to tackle Scythe solo through the use of a deck of cards, but honestly I never managed to get around to trying it.

Take your pick from pistols, shotguns, and machine guns to katanas, scythes and even a chainsaw to blast, slice and dice your way through the hordes of demons threatening the world.

Then there's Reaper's Shroud which equips the Reaper with a giant shadowy scythe, with abilities sharing similarities with those of Death Shroud, though the main focus being on getting up close and cleaving through enemies.

He can also pick up additional weapons scattered by enemies after each fight including a more powerful scythe as well as various pieces of armor, which can be equipped at any time through a sub-menu.

Apart from the shotgun, players are also introduced to the flexible scythe / hacker that the protagonist will use as his primary weapon through most of the playthrough.

Mitjà's Filferro, cadira i dalla (Wire, chair and scythe, 2012) is an overturned wooden chair with a scythe passed through it.